Riot Tests New League of Legends Insta-Ban Feature

Riot Games is currently rolling out a test system on North American League of Legends servers capable of instantly handing intentional feeders a 14-day or permanent ban, Riot's lead designer of social systems Jeffrey Lin announced today.

The latest system introduced by the studio is a bid to address negative gameplay behaviors in League.

“Like our other punishment systems, we’ll start with conservative tests to minimize false positives, and then expand the system to be more aggressive," Lin writes. "As with our other experiments, depending on the results, we’ll roll out similar tests to the other servers.”

Riot Games previously launched several other separate test systems on NA servers to reduce toxic player behaviour that are now ready to be tested on European servers. These systems include a new form of detection and banning for “high severity behaviors” such as excessive verbal abuse, racism, sexism and homophobia.

“After several weeks of testing in North America, we are now ready to start these tests on the European servers,” writes Lin. “We'll continue to monitor the results of these tests as we prepare to roll them out in other regions.”

Riot earlier today revealed Azir, the Emperor of the Sand, as the next Champion coming to the MOBA. For more on League of Legends and other MOBAs, be sure to subscribe to IGN Arena.

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